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n. - Widespread rank-smelling weed having white-rayed flower heads with yellow discs.

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  • I have some lovely scarlet pimqernel, corn camomile (you may know that better as mayweed) ... '
  • Botanists found it included cornflowers and mayweed that were fresh at the time the decoration was made.
  • -- Take a teaspoonful of powdered charcoal in molasses every morning, and wash it down with a little tea, or drink half a glass of raw rum or gin, and drink freely of...
  • "The cornflower and mayweed on the garland around the mummy were in flower in March and April, which tells us the time of year he was buried," said Nigel Hepper of the...
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